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To Gen Milroy From Schuyler Colfax March 18 1862

RHM_1862-316

(in left margin)
The President tells nearly everybody that
he regards my speech as conclusive & as
a sufficient justification of his course.
MeM Wash, March 18, 1862
Dear General,
I received yours of the 10th yesterday
& am delighted to find you are still at H. I went
up to Fremont’s last night & read most of the letter to
him & told him & Jepie all about you. He says you are
the very man he wants with him – took your name in his
note book - & told me to tell you that he would in a
few days put himself in communication with you – that
you need have no fear of being put under a Senior Brigadier.
He will arrange it, will give you every opportunity for fighting
& distinction & will counsel with you about the campaign.
He has always been a warm friend of mine; but since I have
stood up for him during his dark days & especially replying to
Frank Blains attack on him impromptu, with his reinstatement
4 days afterwards, he has overwhelmed me with thanks for more than
I deserve. I have told him my deep interest in you & he will do
everything for you in his power. I told him I should ask no
appointments of him – and that he should let you loose & let you
earn a Major Generalship by fighting. As soon as his plans are
arranged with the Sec of Army, he will go to Wheeling.
Now, will this suit or do you still want to go to Ky?
Much as your heart is with the 9th, I think with the above arrangements,
your best fighting sphere will be with Fremont. In Ky & Tenn, there
are so many Generals you might be overstaffed again.
With regards to Capt. George Hers. Yours ever Schuyler Colfax

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(in left margin)
The President tells nearly everybody that
he regards my speech as conclusive & as
a sufficient justification of his course.
MeM Wash, March 18, 1862
Dear General,
I received yours of the 10th yesterday
& am delighted to find you are still at H. I went
up to Fremont’s last night & read most of the letter to
him & told him & Jepie all about you. He says you are
the very man he wants with him – took your name in his
note book - & told me to tell you that he would in a
few days put himself in communication with you – that
you need have no fear of being put under a Senior Brigadier.
He will arrange it, will give you every opportunity for fighting
& distinction & will counsel with you about the campaign.
He has always been a warm friend of mine; but since I have
stood up for him during his dark days & especially replying to
Frank Blains attack on him impromptu, with his reinstatement
4 days afterwards, he has overwhelmed me with thanks for more than
I deserve. I have told him my deep interest in you & he will do
everything for you in his power. I told him I should ask no
appointments of him – and that he should let you loose & let you
earn a Major Generalship by fighting. As soon as his plans are
arranged with the Sec of Army, he will go to Wheeling.
Now, will this suit or do you still want to go to Ky?
Much as your heart is with the 9th, I think with the above arrangements,
your best fighting sphere will be with Fremont. In Ky & Tenn, there
are so many Generals you might be overstaffed again.
With regards to Capt. George Hers. Yours ever Schuyler Colfax

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